Soon after, the crown prince Chengqian issued an edict to convene an inner court meeting. Soon, Li Tai, the king of Wei, Li Ke, the king of Shu, the king of Guande, the head of the Li family of Longyou, Li Xiong of Zong Zhengqing, Liu Xun of the servants, Xiao Yu, the secretary and supervisor, Wei Zheng, the imperial historian, Cui Gan, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, Lu Chengqing, the secretary of the Ministry of War, Lang Zhong, and the head of the Southern Shi clan Cen Wenwen gathered to the East Palace of the Prince.

As soon as they entered the prince's east palace, the ministers saw that on the main seat of the hall, there was the queen of the Tang Dynasty - the eldest grandson empress, and in front of the eldest grandson queen stood his two sons - the crown prince Chengqian and the Jin king Li Zhi. And in the first position of the left hand of the eldest grandson empress, there sat with a white face, three locks of beautiful hair, a group of harmonious Tang left servants, and the secretary of the Ministry - Fang Xuanling.

Seeing Fang Xuanling, all the ministers were shocked, and the officials of Li Tai, the king of Wei, and Li Ke, the king of Shu, all frowned, and they couldn't understand: Why did the eldest grandson queen and the crown prince Chengqian invite this great god out?

Fang Xuanling has been famous since he was a child, and he is good at recognizing people and grasping the general trend of the world. When he was young, he once said to his father, Pingyuan County Shoufang Yanqian: "Although it is calm today, the end of the Sui Dynasty is just around the corner." At that time, when Emperor Wen of Sui Emperor Yang Jian, the holy lord of the former Sui generation, Fang Xuanling's inference was several years earlier than the prediction of Li Xiaoji, the military advisor of the Emperor Taishang, the "ghost talent", and the king of Yong'an, and the reason for his judgment was that "Emperor Wen of Sui was suspicious and brutal in his later years, and killed heroes indiscriminately, causing panic among the people in the government and the opposition, and the crown prince Yang Guang was narrow-minded and calculating, and he could be a conspirator, but not the Son of Heaven." Once he ascends to the throne, he will not be able to tolerate or employ people, and he will inevitably drag the Sui Dynasty into a situation from which he will never recover. ”

At the age of eighteen, Fang Xuanling began to become a celebrity, but he focused more on making friends with famous people in the world, and at the age of twenty, he had become the leader of the entire literary world. Famous all over the country.

At the age of forty, Fang Xuanling met His Majesty Li Shimin, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, and was introduced as a confidant by Li Shimin. Fang Xuanling also recommended to Li Shimin the very capable literati and celebrities he had befriended. At that time, Du Ruhui was only twenty years old, but he had extraordinary knowledge, and Fang Xuanling appreciated it very much, so he recommended it to Li Shimin, who was still the king of Qin at that time: "If Your Highness has the heart to run the Quartet, you will use this person." Li Shimin immediately adopted it, reused Du Ruhui, and regarded Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui as his right-hand men.

Fang Xuanling has been the first strategist by Li Shimin's side for more than ten years. Until the Xuanwumen Change, because he was jealous of the Emperor Li Yuan, he was afraid that Fang Xuanling would help Li Shimin too much, and he was demoted to Luoyang, the eastern capital.

After the change of Xuanwu Gate, Fang Xuanling served as the left servant of the Tang Dynasty Shangshu and the secretary of the Ministry of Shangshu, and was awarded the title of Liang Guogong, with 1,800 households in the fiefdom, ranking first among the ministers.

From time to time, Li Shimin's uncle, Li Shimin's staunch supporter, and Li Shentong, the king of Huai'an, said to the Tang Emperor Li Shimin because there were only 500 households in the fiefdom: "Your Majesty. I first responded to Emperor Taishang's Taiyuan army against Sui, and then followed His Majesty to conquer King Zheng Wang Shichong and King Xia Dou Jiande. Why is Fang Xuanling the first of the hundred officials? ”

Li Shimin replied: "Although my uncle was the first to respond to the banner of righteousness and raise troops. However, this was just a self-defeating attempt to get rid of the disaster, and I went with me to conquer King Zheng Wang Shichong and King Xia Dou Jiande, and my uncle lost his troops and lost the battle. And Fang Xuanling strategized and won a decisive victory, so that the Tang Dynasty could be stabilized and rewarded for meritorious deeds. Naturally above the uncle. Uncle, you are a close relative of the royal family, and I will never be stingy with you, but I must not reward you with the same rewards as meritorious ministers for personal favoritism. ”

Li Shentong was speechless. From this, the ministers saw that Fang Xuanling's weight in the hearts of His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty was so heavy, so they no longer dared to express their dissatisfaction with their reward, nor did they dare to question Fang Xuanling's position as the head of the ministers.

In the second year of Zhenguan, Emperor Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty deliberately dismissed too many officials in the imperial court, and no one in the imperial court dared to take over this errand that took people's jobs and offended people. His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty handed over the matter to Fang Xuanling. In just half a month, the Tang Dynasty court, which has nearly 3,000 people, was dismissed by Fang Xuanling to only 512 people, and the major wealthy families and all the officials were happy and convinced, and they did not dare to resent the court at all.

Fang Xuanling has assisted the Tang Emperor Li Shimin for nearly 20 years, and has been conscientious and conscientious, becoming the right-hand man and the most important assistant of His Majesty the Tang Emperor.

After all the ministers arrived, Fang Xuanling cleared his throat and said, "My Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty is now trapped in Mayi, and all the ministers are gathered in the East Palace of the Crown Prince today. There is one thing, the old man has to break it for everyone, and I hope everyone will consider it too. At present, the four seas are not appeased, and the Turkic Jieli Khan is a generation of heroes, holding 600,000 elite cavalry, and he looks down on my Tang Dynasty. The old man wants to ask all the adults to think about it, no matter which prince you secretly support, the old man wants to ask if only with your respective strength, as well as the prince you support, who can resist the attack of Jieli Khan's 600,000 iron cavalry? The old man said something you don't like to hear, but it is also a truth. In the old man's opinion, there is none. Whether it is the prince of Jianguo, or His Royal Highness the King of Wei and His Royal Highness the King of Shu, they are definitely not the opponents of the Turkic Jieli Khan, and the only one who can compete with Jieli is my Emperor Majesty of the Tang Dynasty. When Your Majesty is here, there will be Datang, and when Datang is here, there will be the future of everyone. At the moment, no matter how ambitious you are, how carefully planned, and no matter how powerful and powerful you will be in the future, but now the princes you support are still young and all of them are fledglings. If Your Majesty, the big tree in the sky, falls, the princes you support who can't fly will not have a good end, and your major wealthy families and important ministers will not have a good end. Therefore, old man, no matter what you are thinking in your heart now, and no matter what you want to do. The old man now has only one request: that is, to put everything else aside first, and find a way to save His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty first, which is the most important thing. If all the adults here still go their own way, scattering the sand and fighting each other, then they can only wait for the iron cavalry of the Turkic Jieli Khan to rush over, defeat you one by one, and wreak havoc on the Central Plains. (To be continued......)

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